Bigger is more American

Similarly, BAZ45 is a compact gas-operated pistol-caliber carbine despite the nice, fat 45ACP caliber. Feeding off slightly modified M3 Grease Gun magazines, it has the distinction of roughly .22LR level of recoil despite launching more than five times as much metal at similar velocity though the 10-inch barrel. 5.5″ flash hider ensures no visible muzzle flash.

As I was driving the Valiant home, a homeless guy came over to look at it and reminisce about the engine. His first car was a ’61 Dodge Dart that apparently had the same (or very similar) slant six engine.

“In it’s time” driving with a 6-cylinter engine was like defending yourself with a .32. It got you there, but “real cars” had eight and “real guns” .38.
OTOH I did like my father’s Corvair, despite Ralph.

That “slant six” was the strongest/ best power plant ever made in the US. I know of four of them that still run with more than 400000 miles on them. I can show you MANY with more than 200000 miles that have never had the head off them. They didn’t go fast, but they went FOREVER! (Dodge was still building that power plant as late as ’79) I hope that .45 AR is more reliable than the pistol Cal. Colts were in the 80’s and 90’s. I knew six guys that had them and ALL of them went BANG-bang-jam ; bang -bang -jam. They were like the “slab side” CAR-15’s just useless “jam o’ matic’s”.